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Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes from the House That Herring Built

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The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant circle of relatives’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine).
 
When Joel Russ began peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in The united states from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was once giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this “Louvre of lox” (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going throughout the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side was once beginning, the heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other circle of relatives-owned stores had fled.
 
Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking circle of relatives turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele, Mark Russ Federman’s reminiscences combine a heartwarming and triumphant immigrant saga with a panoramic history of twentieth-century New York, a meditation on the creation and selling of gourmet food by a circle of relatives that has mastered this art, and a captivating at the back of-the-scenes look at four generations of people who find themselves just a bit bit crazy in relation to fish.

Color photographs © Matthew Hranek

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